The Meccan Revelations: al-Futuhat al-Makkiyya

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What his father was like in terms of attaining the two statuses and appearing in the two qualities, he imposed on them the humiliating name from the presence of humiliation, so he removed them from denoting it with the dry signifier, and that is for those of his children whom God took care of, so he made them witness to their servitude, so they approached Him with it, and it is not valid for him to draw closer to God except with it, because it is theirs, and God has nothing of it. - Like Abu Yazid and others, when his Lord said to him, “Get closer to me with what I do not have, humiliation and poverty.” He said in removing pride from him, and he said to him, “O Lord, how can I draw closer to you or to you.” And his Lord said to him, “O Abu Yazid, leave yourself and the Almighty, and the soul here is what it has of the pride that it acquired for him.” His father's rank in his creation is in the image, even if someone who is ignorant of this knows that there is nothing in the world

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And know that we have mentioned in more than one place in this book that there is no ruling in the world that does not have a divine basis and a divine attribute. Some of them are absolute and said, and some are not permissible to be said or said, and if they are established and poverty and humiliation were created in His creation, then from what divine reality was it issued? He said to Abu Yazid that he does not have humiliation or need. I have alerted you to the divine support in this, that knowledge is subordinate to the known, and knowledge is an attribute of perfection and cannot be obtained except from the known. If there were only this amount, as there is nothing but this amount, it would be sufficient. Then I will give you more explanation of what you give of the truths of the names. The divine nature through which there is multiplicity and multiplicity. If the world was lifted from the mind, the names of addition that require exaltation and other things would not be lifte

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